Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.